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	Crystal Shard
Line		Dark Magic
Line Rank		1	Cost	2970 Magicka
Cast Time		1 second	Duration	–
Target		Enemy
Range		28 meters
Morphs
		Crystal Blast Stuns the enemy and deals area of effect damage around them.
		Crystal Fragments Other Magicka abilities have a chance to make your next Crystal Fragments instant, deal more damage, and cost less.
Notes Magicka/Stamina Cost is based on a character of Level 50 160. Damage values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 7958, Max Health 8744, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1037.

Crystal Shard: Conjure dark crystals to bombard an enemy, dealing [8058 / 8145 / 8234 / 8323] Magic Damage.

Crystal Blast: Conjure dark crystals to bombard an enemy, dealing [8323 / 8414 / 8504 / 8598] Magic Damage and stunning them for 2 seconds. Also damages enemies near the initial target for [8323 / 8414 / 8504 / 8598] Magic Damage.

Crystal Fragments: Conjure dark crystals to bombard an enemy, dealing [8323 / 8414 / 8504 / 8598] Magic Damage. Casting any other Magicka ability has a 35% chance of causing your next Crystal Fragments to be instant, deal 33% more damage, and cost 50% less Magicka.

Crystal Blast

Crystal Shard will deal Magic Damage to a single opponent (or multiple opponents with Crystal Blast morph). Crystal Blast also knocks them to the ground for a few seconds and deals damage to other nearby targets. This is most effective when used against melee enemies, in order to keep them away while your other attacks or allies finish them off. Or by using Crystal Fragments, casting any other Magicka-based spell has a chance to increase the damage and reduce the casting cost by half as well as removing the casting delay so it can be cast instantly.

Notes

• While Crystal Blast will deal damage to multiple opponents, only the primary target will be knocked down.
• Some larger enemies are immune to knockdown, but they will still take damage from this spell.
• Enemies won't become aware of your presence until this spell hits.
• With Crystal Fragments, there is a sound when the instant, half-cost cast becomes available. You should learn to recognize this sound so you know when the ideal time to cast will be. You will also know that a cast is ready because your hands will have a blue glow around them.
• Crystal Blast is a recommended morph for the Sorcerer Initiate build, while Crystal Fragments is recommended for Elemental Arcanist.

Patch Notes

 

1.2.3

• Crystal Blast: Increased this ability's area-of-effect damage.
• Crystal Fragments: The sound and visual effects that indicate this ability can be cast instantly are more noticeable.

 

1.3.3

• Crystal Blast: Fixed a graphical issue that would occur when the Crystal Blast projectile was dodged.

 

1.6.5

• Reduced the cast time on all ranks and morphs to 1 second from 1.3 seconds.
• Fixed an issue with the impact timing with this ability.
• Crystal Shards and its morphs will now show the correct icon in the death recap screen.
• Crystal Fragments (morph): Fixed an issue where this morph was applying multiple passives each time it was cast. We also fixed an additional issue where this ability's instant cast wasn't proccing when casting Bolt Escape.
• Drain Essence: Fixed an issue where you could spam this ability on immune targets for free Crystal Fragments procs.

 

2.0.8

• Crystal Fragments: It is no longer possible for this ability's damage bonus to proc multiple times in a row and stack.

 

2.3.5

• Crystal Blast: Increased the secondary splash damage of this morph by 25%.

 

3.0.5

• Crystal Fragments (Crystal Shard morph): Reduced the damage bonus of this morph's instant-cast proc to 10% from 20%.
  • Developer Comments: Sorcerer's sustained damage in PvE and burst damage in PvP is currently too high, so reducing the damage bonus from Crystal Fragments brings them down slightly in both areas without being too punishing to the overall damage kit.

 

3.2.5

• This ability and the Crystal Fragments morph no longer stun the enemy hit. The Crystal Blast morph continues to stun the initial enemy hit.
  • Developer Notes: We wanted to separate the function of abilities into more distinct roles. Crystal Shards was overloaded since it had high damage, instant cast, stun, reduced cost. Now if the sorcerer wants a stun they have to either go through a cast time or deal reduced damage.
• Crystal Blast: Increased the splash damage of this morph by approximately 25%.
  • Developer Notes: We wanted to make this morph worth the time spent casting, so we're increasing the area of effect damage to make it worth the risk of throwing into a pack of enemies.

 

4.2.5

• Crystal Fragments:
  • The icon on your action bar now changes when you have an instant-cast proc.
  • Fixed an issue where using the instant-cast proc would cause you to stop blocking, and would prevent you from taking other actions for 0.2 seconds.
  • Increased the damage of the proc from this ability to 20% from 10%.
  • This ability’s proc now has a very brief minimum travel time before it hits your target.
  • You can no longer get a Crystal Fragment proc while you are not actively engaged in combat.

 

5.0.5

• Reduced the cost of this ability and its morphs by approximately 15% to put it in line with our other cast time abilities.
• Reduced the minimum travel time on this ability and its morphs to 250ms from 450ms.

 

5.1.5

• Decreased the base cost of this ability and its morphs to 2970 from 3510, and decreased the damage by approximately 10%.
• Crystal Blast: The AoE portion of this ability now deals the same damage as the initial hit.
• Crystal Fragments: Increased the bonus damage dealt of the proc from this ability to 33% from 20% to retain the damage of this proc.